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Jon Stewart, George Lucas Rematch Set For Next Star Wars Fan Orgy

Nearly six months after their initial, historic Daily Show power summit, Jon Stewart and George Lucas apparently have some unfinished business to attend to. Hence today’s news that the duo will reconvene this summer at Star Wars Celebration V, the annual fan gathering down in Orlando. Relive their first pas de deux after the jump, and dry-clean your Chewbacca outfit in preparation for an hour-long Round Two.

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Jon Stewart, George Lucas Rematch Set For Next Star Wars Fan Orgy

REVIEW: Characters Deserve Better in Violent Killer Inside Me

The brash violence of Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me — adapted from Jim Thompson’s merciless and enthralling 1952 pulp novel about a psychotic West Texas sheriff — began dividing audiences last January at Sundance . It also appears to have divided Winterbottom himself, though he doesn’t know it. The controversy involves two particularly violent scenes, one a protracted sequence in which a character played by Jessica Alba is beaten until her face resembles what one character calls “stewed meat, hamburger.” The nutso sheriff, played by Casey Affleck, throws perhaps some 20 punches; we see about six or seven of them land, as Alba’s face becomes progressively bruised, bloodied and misshapen, until it resembles a cracked-open, oversized plum.

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REVIEW: Characters Deserve Better in Violent Killer Inside Me